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123456789JD [2017-07-02 03:07:22 +0000 UTC]
What about early hominids?
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BagelBagelBagel [2017-04-01 17:51:33 +0000 UTC]
Very fascinating to learn that fruit didn't exist back then.
Where would you live if you ended up in this world?
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Goliath-Maps In reply to BagelBagelBagel [2017-05-14 20:22:42 +0000 UTC]
Hmm, probably in one of the Western States. That is, if I could choose. In all likelihood I'd stay near wherever I was born.
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lamnay [2016-03-25 22:53:50 +0000 UTC]
Very interesting.
Small possible issues I noticed with the wildlife.
1. Hyracotherium was a dinky little thing. You could probably pull a carriage with them, but they'd be more like sled dogs than a horse and cart. Also, long extinct by the Oligocene.
2. "giant sloths, bears, hairy rhinoceros and prehistoric bison" "giant predatory cats" Some ground sloths may have island hopped north as early as 10 million years ago, but they would not be in north america at the time. As far as I know they were only just starting to emerge in south america. Bears at this time were not very bear-like, resembling raccoons and dogs. There were no bison at all at this time, nor any cattle. Their ancestors would probably have been small antelope-like animals. The first cats only evolved in the late Oligocene, and wouldn't get very big for a while. Rhinos were abundant and diverse, with low-slung hippo like rhinos, athletic running rhinos and the titanic indricotheres, some of the largest land mammals ever.
3. Deinotherium evolved much later, and would not have been present. There were Deinotheres in the late Oligocene though, but we don't know much about them.
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Goliath-Maps In reply to lamnay [2016-04-07 23:05:38 +0000 UTC]
Oh cool- are you a fan of this particular era?
This is some good material add/change, thanks!
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lamnay In reply to Goliath-Maps [2016-04-08 07:25:41 +0000 UTC]
I like the whole Cenozoic, those were just a couple of things I noticed.
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BobMumby [2014-08-07 22:28:50 +0000 UTC]
I played Bang! with some friends the other day, and I thought it might be fun to make my own set with the aesthetics of this world rather than the Old West.
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QuantumBranching [2014-06-28 00:37:31 +0000 UTC]
Very nicely done, and some interesting cultural developments. Have there been any religiously motivated wars in the past? (Minor quibble: I am a bit skeptical about the ability to keep a city of five million supplied in a world with no mechanized transportation, industrial mass production, or mechanized agriculture)
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Goliath-Maps In reply to QuantumBranching [2014-06-29 17:41:56 +0000 UTC]
Thanks! Most of the religious wars have been Mormons v. Non-Mormons. The other religious groups are not geographically separate enough to go to war.
Well, in 1859, London had a population of about 5 million, so assuming we have an almost London 1,000 years later, perhaps 5 million could be possible?
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QuantumBranching In reply to Goliath-Maps [2014-06-29 21:09:15 +0000 UTC]
Greater London was no more than 3 million, at least according to wiki, and was already at the center of a web of railways by 1850 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_…
(And of course the industrial revolution was some 70 years old in 1859).
But I'm no expert on what it takes to supply and keep going a major city, so I'll avoid making any further arguments.
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Goliath-Maps In reply to QuantumBranching [2014-06-30 00:59:04 +0000 UTC]
hmm. Perhaps I underestimated the industrial capabilities of the Jefferson Territory? I'm fairly certain they didn't have railroads until after the Civil War (decades after, even) but maybe there are some in the territory able to build them? Perhaps unlikely still.
Maybe there would be steam engines or textiles though? That seems more likely...
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MajorasAss [2014-06-27 18:09:46 +0000 UTC]
What caused the time warp? Quantum event maybe?
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Goliath-Maps In reply to MajorasAss [2014-06-27 19:50:14 +0000 UTC]
That's something that I totally ignore. Perhaps Aliens decided it would be a fun experiment. Perhaps a black hole hit the earth, and sucked the Jefferson Territory back in time ~30 million years.
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freivolk [2014-06-27 16:26:22 +0000 UTC]
Interssting idea.
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BobMumby [2014-06-27 16:23:29 +0000 UTC]
I love where you've taken this.
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